Staff Specialist (Internal Medicine)

at  Queensland Health

Metro South Health is Australia’s first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland’s population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• This role reports to Director of Internal Medicine
• This position fulfils accountabilities and responsibilities in accordance with Metro South’s purpose and objectives.
• Foster a culture of interprofessional collaboration and leadership through understanding the role and the roles of others in the interprofessional team leveraging this knowledge to establish and meet client goals and inform service direction.
• Staffing and budget responsibilities:
• Supervisory and leadership responsibilities commensurate with a senior medical officer role which involves leading clinical teams, supervising junior medical officers and liaising with other senior clinician colleagues.
• Provision of inpatient, outpatient and consultative general medical services, including participation in the on-call general medicine roster.
• Contribute to the development of clinical protocols; monitoring and reporting of benchmarks; and developing General Medicine models of care.
• Engage with and lead multidisciplinary teams providing patient care.
• Contribute to achievement of excellence in patient flow, advance care planning, quality use of medicines and other service priorities of the Department of Internal Medicine
• Develop and maintain strong interdepartmental relationships in respect of admitting, managing and discharging patients presenting to the Emergency Department and Medical Assessment and Planning Units.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 (PDF) and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF))
You can find out more about why it’s so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.
You can find out more about why it’s so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-teaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

• This role reports to Director of Internal Medicine
• This position fulfils accountabilities and responsibilities in accordance with Metro South’s purpose and objectives.
• Foster a culture of interprofessional collaboration and leadership through understanding the role and the roles of others in the interprofessional team leveraging this knowledge to establish and meet client goals and inform service direction.
• Staffing and budget responsibilities:
• Supervisory and leadership responsibilities commensurate with a senior medical officer role which involves leading clinical teams, supervising junior medical officers and liaising with other senior clinician colleagues.
• Provision of inpatient, outpatient and consultative general medical services, including participation in the on-call general medicine roster.
• Contribute to the development of clinical protocols; monitoring and reporting of benchmarks; and developing General Medicine models of care.
• Engage with and lead multidisciplinary teams providing patient care.
• Contribute to achievement of excellence in patient flow, advance care planning, quality use of medicines and other service priorities of the Department of Internal Medicine
• Develop and maintain strong interdepartmental relationships in respect of admitting, managing and discharging patients presenting to the Emergency Department and Medical Assessment and Planning Units